Interview de Ed sur Triple J FM (radio australienne),
le 20 décembre 2000 : "Amnesiac is slated
for June release, and will most likely have some singles/videos. Pyramid
Song is on the album. Ed said the name of the first track, but just
like a classic Thom, he mumbled it. But it starts with a P and
apparently has quite a pop element to it, in a radiohead way. Ed
likened Amnesiac to The Bends,
saying The mood is not constant like OK Computer
or Kid A. He is really excited about
the album and thinks that it will most definately be a surprise to people. It
is described as being a collection of songs rather than a cohesive album. [...]
Ed said that it does contain songs recorded in the Kid A sessions,
but they don't like to express it that way. They prefer the notion that they
are new songs, because people start to think of them as 'out takes', which they're
not." (CUTW)

It goes off in two ways. One is like very broken
machinery. The other is really fat and dark. I played one of the songs to Björk,
and she said it sounded like IÍd just seen something really frightening, then
gone and written about it. ItÍs sort of bearing witness to things. WeÍve all listened
to these other songs, getting an idea of what we have. It could be an EPs thing;
maybe it will be a better record than the one weÍve just made. ItÍs impossible
for us to judge. In the same way, I canÍt judge what Kid A is like. I
canÍt listen to it - I donÍt want to listen to it. When youÍre in the mastering
suite and you hear it for the final time, with all the gaps between the songs,
thatÍs it. After that, I went home with the CD and showed it to Rachel, and said:
"This is Kid A, and I donÍt want to hear it anymore." I want
to do the same thing with the next one. ItÍs fantastic when you finish something
thatÍs hanging around your neck.

I'm not sure they are two records. We had that
group of songs to make one record, and the other ones are left over. It's that
we had, say, 23 songs and we wanted to have around 47 minutes of music, so we
chose the best combination out of that number, and the rest are waiting on the
bench, waiting to be picked for the next team line-up.

We haven't decided what it is going to be like.
It is a combination of like, more conventional, perhaps, but also more dissonant
stuff. But it continues on from Kid A. It was all done in the same recording
period. It is all a whole.

If you record 24 songs, and some of the songs
you play live are off the next record, it's inevitable people are going to talk
about the next album. We've got that one over and done with, and it's on to the
next one. I think we're on a bit of a roll at the moment. Others may disagree.

We've done lots more recordings and we're trying
to find the right way to release more of the songs... We want to find a way of
releasing the other songs we've recorded, not just on EPs, and put it together
as another piece of work... We've got lots of other songs that we want to release
sooner rather than later.